Vols
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɒɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vols is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6Mas Voels(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 96K
- NLNetherlands1 in 303K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vols itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
127 named Voels, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Voels in US United States, DE Germany and Völs in AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vols counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 127as Voels | 1 in 2.6M | 130 | Voels | 75 |
| BE Belgium | 122 | 1 in 96K | 122 | Vols | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 57 | 1 in 303K | 57 | Vols | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Voels | 24 |
| AR Argentina | 27 | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Völs | 4 |
127 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vols is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of voler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernest Volsb. 16501650-1720; Jesuit; Mathematiker
- Guido Volsb. 1995NLice hockey player (1995-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 122 | #13,234 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 57 | #28,353 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 27 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vols?
- A machine transcription gives /vɒɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vols have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 127 people named Voels, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vols most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vols is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 96 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vols?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 122 people named Vols in 2008, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vols?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vols”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.